Insurance giant Allstate has raised eyebrows after being granted patents for a proposed high-tech surveillance system that could track a driver’s every move. The company won patents for technology that, Source: How much privacy are drivers willing to give up for better car insurance rates?

A good article of how Boston Police hunted a killer in the digital age. “Investigators followed the suspect through cell towers, Craigslist accounts, and Internet protocol addresses, right back to his own apartment — culminating in a high-tech stake out and one of the more damning hauls of physical evidence authorities had ever seen.” Read…

Is it simply a matter of adjusting our attitudes by living with a “novel” use of information long enough? Or are we slowly boiling to death? HBR concludes there’s usually a rationale explanation for the creepiness and that it’s not really creepy in the long run. I’m not suer I agree with all of the…